Collective Goods

Collective Goods is a kit to start informal goods sharing service that facilitates increased positive interactions between neighbors within a residential building at in Stuyvesant Town and Cooper Peter Village in New York City.

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Getting to know your neighbors means building the social capacity of the community, and community resilience is one of the most important strategies for mitigating the impacts of potentially devastating events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

The kit was designed with and for Stuyvesant Town and Cooper Peter Village in New York City. In order to think about resilience from the community level, we asked participants to virtually bring their neighbors to the workshops. We all had two name tags (one for ourselves and one for our neighbors), and as an introduction, we each told a short story about our neighbors. The intention was to remind people that we are thinking about resilience in a collective way.